In the background of modern life, as people go on debating politics and working for a living, something dreadful is happening to the eco-systems which support us. Major disasters like the ongoing radioactive leak at Fukushima, the apocalyptic fires burning throughout Indonesia, even bee colony collapse disorder, seem to fall out of view in day-to-day life, as we seem to have lost our power and will to directly participate in the stewardship of planet earth.

A new crisis is now happening all around us affecting trees. It appears that millions, hundreds of millions even, of trees are dying in North America and around the world from a basket of reasons, promising to completely and permanently alter the landscape and environment around us.

Tree are among the most abundant and the most critical organisms on planet earth, and only recently have we been able to assess just how many trees inhabit planet earth. A study published in 2015 gave us this picture:

“A new study published in Nature estimates the planet has 3.04 trillion trees. The research says 15.3 billion trees are chopped down every year. It also estimates that 46% of the world’s trees have been cleared over the past 12,000 years.” [Source]

Now in 2016, alarm bells are ringing and in California alone, the problem has become incredibly severe:

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California’s drought stricken forests. In 2016 alone, 62 million trees have died, representing more than a 100 percent increase in dead trees across the state from 2015. Millions of additional trees are weakened and expected to die in the coming months and years.” [Source]

A New York Times feature on trees in California warns us that many of the state’s trees were already dead before forest fires moved in, thereby making the fire situation worse.

Beyond California

Many of the tree deaths in Northern California have been linked to Sudden Oak Death in addition to an ongoing drought, but, the tragic die-off of trees is far from limited to California. In 2010, Hawaii’s well ohi’a trees began to die on the Big Island due to a disease now referred to as ohi’a disease, and scientists still don’t understand its origins or how to treat it. These are just a few examples of many in a wave of issues killing trees in many parts of America and around the world.

‘The plight of the ohi’a is not unique – it’s part of a quiet crisis playing out in forests across America. Drought, disease, insects and wildfire are chewing up tens of millions of trees at an incredible pace, much of it driven by climate change.” [Source]

Entire mountainsides are dying off in short order, leaving a bleak future for wildlife and residents. Some speculate that the widespread loss of trees due to such a wide conflagration of issues is a sign that trees, the most rugged of all plants, are in general weakened from an environment under complex attack by pollution and even climate engineering projects.

“In California and in other parts of the world, many are making the connection between climate engineering these tree die-offs. Also known as geoengineering, this is the modification of the earth’s atmosphere with the supplementation of compounds and chemicals, ostensibly as a means of favorably influencing the climate.” [Source]

Could be, although there is nothing like a consensus on the issue of why trees are in such a weakened state that so many are succumbing to so many issues.

Thousands of trees killed by mountain pine beetles in western Rocky Mountain national park.

A Planet Out of Balance

“Natural ecosystems have been altered in various ways by nitrogen, sulfur, and mercury deposited in rain, snow, or as gases and particles in the atmosphere. Through decades of scientific research, scientists have documented how local, regional, and global sources of air pollution can produce profound changes in ecosystems. These changes include acidification of soils and surface waters, harmful algal blooms and low oxygen conditions in estuaries, reduced diversity of native plants, high levels of mercury in fish and other wildlife, and decreased tolerance to other stresses, such as pests, disease, and climate change.” – Issues in Ecology, Fall 2011 Edition – “Setting Limits – Using Air Pollution Thresholds to Protect and Restore U.S. Ecosystems”

The web of life cannot be damaged in one area without the effects being felt elsewhere. Just as bees and other insects are dying off en masse by a number of causes, some known and unknown, trees are also harbingers of the health of our planet. With such little attention given to the state of this earth and so much attention given to the human and political dramas that occupy our attention 24/7, will the human race wake up and react in time to avert a major planetary crisis?

What are your thoughts on this important and pressing issue? Please leave your comments below, and share this article far and wide.

Thought the Gov said it was a renewable resource? We, the loggers, said it was a renewable resource only by tree farming, we the loggers said clearcutting was harmful and would only last 3 cuttings before the nutrients here were deprived for lack of worms on this Continent, once the forest floor was damaged, there is only an 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch max of topsoil. The forest floor was 2 to 3ft above the ground and hollow underneath. The introduction of worms an invasive species has destroyed the forest floor and many trees here cannot adapt. Lack of burning has also caused a problem, a forest can recover after clearcutting then burning the open area. Our 150yr old Tree Farm, is taller today then it was 150yrs ago and I am 47 and have seen aspen and poplar grow 60ft and white pine grow from nothing to 60ft with smooth bark to the base, bigger already to some 150yr old pines on the South side. Maples max out at 115ft, Oak 150ft, Black Cherry, Elm, and Hickory 180ft and the pines up to 240ft, the baby pines are skinnier than a foot and just as tall now, but also have oaks in between skinnier and just as tall. In one section, the pine/spruce/fir’s are so close together (growing under the canopy of the Aspens) that soon, no one will be able to fit through between the trees, right now I can make it through sideways. We, the Falls Family of Ontario have proven tree farms work and also have a forest fire recovery demonstration on the back half, now fully recovered with excellent succession in to the surrounding Conservation lands. All around us dead elms, ash, but still thousands upon thousands, even if one does die, hundreds more grow from the root base, woodpeckers and the ecosytem keep bugs at bay, we even have fire blight, but as long as you do not cut down the trees that carry them, it never spreads. No, this is what happens when you pillage for profits. It all comes to an abrupt end.

allba45

who is terraforming our planet,and for what reason.

phyllis bala

The chems from GeoEngineering are waaay too much lately. It is a sky full of chemicals that fill our blue void as far as the eye can see. It’s horrific. I learned that the chemicals cause the soils to become sterile, cutting off the trees from the nutrition they need to thrive. I’m sure it kills and damages the insect/fungal/bacterial life in the soils that help to produce everything the trees need for nutrition & balanced health. If we don’t start adding something back to the soils in the forests that remain, how will they regain strength & integrity they need to continue growing? When my trees & plants get sick, I care for the microbiome in the soil. They always make such a fast come-back.

Mankind is terribly wrong with interfering with the climate. Most disturbing is that everything is happening in secret which is totally unacceptable!!
Send emails and links to your governments and insist that they explain what is happening. Small chance that you get answers (at least I did not answers) but I send them new links again and again and politicians at least are confronted with the situation and have to think whether they like it or not. Send info to friends and family so that they too can put pressure on our governments. People must learn that they can not just sit back and wait as then nothing is going to happen. When we want a better and more honest world for ourselves and our children we are the ones who must take care that we get that world.

Who cares what happens in America. The world’s more powerful, prolific and pernicious polluters getting worked up about the results of their own actions on their own living conditions? That’s a bit ironic, isn’t it?

blue579

A touch of schadenfreude when the global pathocracy’s environmental destruction is global. Problem, reaction, solution to track and chip every human being.

wayne

Monsanto goes beyond corn, soy, and cotton with Genetic Modification, and develops G.M.O. trees with a touted sales-pitch of being ALUMINUM TOLERANT.
This, years ago, when that sounded alarmingly insane as to why on earth is aluminum tolerance even an issue……………..because IT WASN’T!
Fast forward and incredibly and COINCIDENTALLY, extremely high levels of aluminum start showing up everywhere in soil samples and even on snow packs atop mountains!
Someone have a crystal ball?????????
Chemtrail Weather Modification Engineering PATENTS, COINCIDENTALLY suggest using jet aircrafts to disperse tons of nano-size aluminum particles in combination with Lithium and Barium into the upper atmosphere.
The age old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg seems very relevant again.
Did the solution to the problem miraculously appear before the problem itself appeared, or is Monsanto just incredibly lucky at predicting the future?

Sallie Ann

Most of the problems in the Pacific Northwest are caused by RADIATION!!!! Duh!!!

Madeline Lund

What can we do on a day to day basis to help??

Dimitri Ledkovsky

With vegetation and insects on the downslide bacteria and fungi are bound to take advantage. I wonder what that will look like?

Eldon Orr

sowing hemp/cannabis seeds into these deforested areas will save the region from mudslides far quicker than natural reforestation. and we are liable to need all the cannabis we can muster to fight future radiation sickness!

Meter

Good job including climate engineering, although that should be front and center. Heavy metals being sprayed, and the ozone layer being destroyed (UV-C is now incredibly high and dangerous), appear to be the major causes. The droughts are also part of the engineering, as normally a warming climate would be very wet and stormy.

It’s not just trees that are dying. Insects have also all but disappeared from many areas. Oceans are dying. Many species are being wiped out and going extinct. Humans too, in some areas of the world, are experiencing the end of the world already, and especially the end of the world they recognize.

It is truly amazing what people can fail to see, locked in their virtual reality, which is generated by media, which completely controls where their attention goes. They just want to be told what to believe. Otherwise they might have to THINK, and thus be responsible. Yet if they acknowledge the scale of what is happening, it lets all the air out of all the petty fights they’re fighting. Compared with what’s happening to the actual planet and life on it, including the weather and geological activity, all the news in the news cycle is just human insanity, completely wasted effort, babbling apes in a frenzy just before they’re slaughtered. Donald Trump tells us he’s going to MAGA by creating some automobile jobs, etc.? Such narratives have no connection with the real challenges ahead. Donald seems to be a conspiracy analyst so he may be aware of it, and insiders certainly are, so they may have their real plans, but they’re not included in the MSM or even alt political narratives. If they are, it’s just in the form of the climate change canned debate and divide.

The control system has effectively divided people between the camp that sees global warming as caused by 100W lightbulbs, merely a political issue about helping a problem that might develop centuries from now, and the camp that believes it’s all a hoax. Both camps completely ignore the current engineering, and the plans of neither have any future or reality. The people who actually acknowledge what is happening here and now, including the scale of climate engineering ridiculously visible RIGHT OVER THEIR HEADS, and deaths all around them, are few.

The only reasonable activity now is preparing for major changes, such as setting up distributed ways of growing food, arranging for emergency migration from some areas – basically helping people survive major upheaval, and helping some of the knowledge and cultures survive. We’re about to become gypsies, if not simply dead. Many people already are: massive homeless tent cities, etc. Spiritually, prepare. Prepare for what? For what comes.

I would say there are two probable outcomes of what is happening with the climate:

1) The engineers inhibiting storm formation and creating artificial weather in some zones (both of which are actually contributing to greater runaway warming, not preventing it) will eventually lose control of the weather. Superstorms will form, destroying their equipment, reconfiguring the weather of the entire planet, with temperatures in some or all areas unlivable. Most nuclear power reactors will go into melt-down as grids fail, and wars may erupt. This means massive death and upheaval globally, and a reset in nature and ecological systems, like past extinction events have caused. You can see preparations for this in the underground bases they’re building, etc. People can prepare for it by decentralizing all preparations, becoming light and mobile. It would seem the power structure doesn’t want most people to survive, and are poisoning them, destroying the ability to grow healthy food, limiting access to fresh water, inhibiting fertility and health through vaccines and hidden biowarfare, etc. Once the climate has normalized somewhat, the survivors presumably plan to come out of their bunkers and have the planet to themselves (though I think they underestimate how different the world will be with most of their civilization dead – the kind of thing you may not want to survive).

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2) The engineers may be able to continue suppressing weather for a longer period with relative stability. This still will involve great change, because the poles are melting and major forces are coming into play, with much heat energy and methane involved. This will require larger efforts to alter. Yet with extreme events, such as blowing volcanos to fill the atmosphere with ash, or spraying even more and darker particulates, they could conceivably darken the sky so much that a global cool-down or mini ice age would be created, similar to a large comet strike. Even if their control of this cool-down or hold-steady is superb (they’re using AI and have ET help, so it’s conceivable), there will still be massive species die-off, as is already occurring. Even if they keep the weather in chains without massive storms or temperature changes, the die-offs, toxins, radiation and lack of sunlight will have catastrophic effects on all life. They won’t be able to maintain the current illusion that nothing radical is happening. Again, the plan is probably for some to retreat to bunkers, while the surface becomes uninhabitable, or a gray world of concrete and artificial lighting, artificial food, and artificial medicine. This is probably the dystopia where people are chipped, enslaved, living in virtual reality, etc. Such a gray, unnatural, weatherless world could go on for millennia, and again simply be a living hell.

For now #2 is unfolding, but I suspect it will be #1, because #2 is nature-killing. Nature is super-intelligent, and extends not just down into lower species, but also upwards into more highly evolved lifeforms. Humans tend to only see what is below them, because they have been trained not to look up. Yet nature will protect itself, in that the system will adjust before it allows the system itself to die. Life always moves toward functionality, and Earth is not merely home to humans. Yet this adjustment may be very difficult or fatal for the human species.

Nature already is making that adjustment using the weather as well as larger cosmic changes, sending the world into another upheaval and reset. Humans will need to swim for their lives. Historically, weather collapsed civilizations and reduced humans to bands of survivors, who then rebuilt from scratch and a few memories. This might be considered a natural life cycle for unenlightened civilizations. Yet now that the weather is being controlled to prevent or stall some of that, other higher-intelligence players may become involved, throwing a comet at us, etc.

Was Atlantis sinking just a coincidence? Of course not. It was a civilization which had advanced in some ways, but used knowledge to oppress. Eventually this became so dysfunctional that nature’s purpose of evolution was no longer being served, it was being stalled. Thus a reset occurred, which even their advanced civilization (far in advance of our own) was not able to foresee or prevent.

Many Atlanteans are reincarnated today (the Western world), and there is a collective memory of that fall. Perhaps the geoengineering is the latest attempt to try to avoid the grinding of the zodiac mill.

Meter

Also, a few prepping ideas… I realize there are websites for this but I’m not a big believer in making a huge bunker with 50 gallon drums of MSG-laden food, etc., and most people aren’t in a position to do so. I tend to be a mobile person so I take a lightweight approach to prepping, based on my mountaineering experience.

* First, just have some extra food and water on hand. Make it food you actually eat, and rotate the supply, just buy extra. A few foods to consider: quinoa (which lasts for 10+ years and can be sprouted as well, and is a complete protein), organic dried beans, sprouting seeds (can grow live food without sunlight or soil), Green Magma (dried young barley grass juice or other raw food powders), hemp and chia seeds, raisins and other dried/canned fruit, olive oil, vitamin D3, C, and other *quality* vitamins and herbs, apple cider vinegar, etc.

* A first aid/health care kit, of course. Consider things like aluminum-free baking soda, which has many health uses. Gauze, tape and scissors. Isopropyl alcohol and hydrogen peroxide. Painkillers and other medicines. Also N95 or N100 masks, rubber gloves, swim goggles, etc. Keep it organized and in a mobile container.

* A bug-out bag containing some of the vital stuff and some clothing. Try to get a mountaineering pack that places the weight on your hips, not just on your shoulders. A duffel bag or two is also good to have, or a cart/stroller – you may be riding in a vehicle initially and able to take more supplies than on foot. Have your vital documents in your bug-out bag or ready to go.

* A small propane camp stove and fuel canisters, and perhaps a Jetboil for your pack. While most of your food should not require cooking, some hot drinks and food will be welcome. A hotplate is also good for travel in case you have electricity.

* A gravity water filter, such as a Berkey, where you can dump in just about any water and also take it with you. (You should be using a Berkey now routinely, as your water is probably contaminated with metals, this is a great filter, and it’s better than forcing your organs to filter all the metals. Help your body out.) Having a few Life Straws is also good – a straw-shaped filter that fits in your pocket or bag and can filter a year’s worth of water for each person (300 gallons) for $20. You can literally drink out of toilets and puddles. Scout out natural sources of water around you.

* One of the small folding solar panels for hikers, which provide USB charging ports. Not that expensive, and they can charge a power bank (external battery). They can charge phones, radios, flashlights, and with a USB battery charger can charge AA and AAA batteries. Charge all your devices and batteries routinely every four months.

* In case the sun isn’t shining, a hand crank or pedal generator (eg the K-Tor Pocket Socket, which provides a 110VDC normal socket, a neat device to have and well-made).

* Some LED headlamps and flashlights, a battery powered radio with shortwave bands, and rechargable batteries. Also consider two-way radios that don’t depend on cell towers so you can stay in communication (25 miles with some of them), an mp3 player and some old-fashioned books. Also, some glowsticks are handy in case flashlights aren’t working for whatever reason, such as an EMP (parafin candles are toxic and don’t last long).

* Good mountaineering gear (check used shops if need be), including a -40F degree rated sleeping bag or better, a packable tent/bivy, waterproof boots, waterproof clothing (for warm and cold weather), a large hat, good gloves, and hand and foot warmers. By having this gear, if home heating goes out, or you need to travel in cold or wet weather, you’ve got what you need. No need to build fires or have fuel to keep warm, etc. If I can camp on top of a mountain in snow, wind, and -30F, I can certainly get by inside a home or shelter whose heating has gone off. Modern gear is awesome for staying warm and dry without bulk and weight.

* Apple cider vinegar in the large cheap jugs, which can be used to bathe people and pets (a sponge bath with apple cider vinegar mixed with a little water gets you clean, cleans your hair, requires no rinse water, and also acts as a natural deoderant).

* A bathroom: Cat litter, for indoor solid waste, and sealed jugs for urine. This controls odor unlike a camp toilet or open latrine. Just empty the wastes in a hole nearby each day and bury.

* Create a ship’s store of assorted items you won’t be able to run to a department store to get. Again this can be things you regularly use, just buy extra when you can.

* Cash and valuables. If you need to pay rent, try to get a month ahead or have cash on hand for a few months. Other valuables may be traded.

* Get to know your neighbors in person, and form a group plan. This may be better than relying on weapons, especially if you don’t know how to use them. Consider a bug-out location near you for alternate shelter.

* Consider moving if you live near a coast, low-lying areas, drought-prone areas, in a city, etc. Get out early and find a more promising location.

It’s nice to have enough supplies to last a few months, but even a few weeks worth can change a situation much for the better. With the above you have food, water, medicine, basic supplies, light, communication, recharging power, warmth/shelter, and all of it is mobile and fairly inexpensive. If an emergency occurs, you can avoid going out to stores, rioting, FEMA camps, etc.

Most of this stuff doesn’t go bad, is also good for hiking, camping, and travel, and prepares you for a variety of situations, even if the world isn’t ending. Even squirrels put away nuts for winter, it’s natural.

Marten

And you forgot something very important ( Colloidal Silver )

Meter

Yes, colloidal silver is definitely good to have, and learn to use – old-fashioned antibiotic and very effective. This wasn’t a complete list so it’s worth consulting some guides to fill it in, and I welcome suggestions. Also may be good to have some chlorella (takes metals out of the body and provides chlorophyll), calcium-bentonite clay powder (Pascalite), and other things to help remove and treat radiation.

Of course one can take prepping to other levels, and no amount of prepping can foresee or handle all possibilities. I like some basics at least. Even in terms of absorbing some of the bumps during extended power outages, etc., it can be nice to have alternatives to grid life.

gnost11

If we allow others to kill our world, I’m not sure you’ll live long enough to use your stuff!

Meter

I do use most of my gear, it is part of my home and activities. A few things are more for emergency or travel. I like having a good ship, capable of running on internal power for awhile. It’s surprising how day-to-day most people live, driving to stores everyday, etc., having no reserves. I find that somewhat irresponsible and reckless, and also wasteful of resources. Then they panic when a small interruption occurs. I believe we should all do our part to be reasonably prepared. Living through some hurricanes and in the mountains has taught me well. Nature is powerful.

Yet it’s true that no amount of prepping is a guarantee of survival or health. It’s just a little extra insulation, a little fat for winter, some tools and supplies at the ready. Mine is not a war for survival.

Not sure about “others” killing our world. I do not see myself or others as victims, nor do I see major climate shifts or massive die-offs as tragedy. I am a student of the ancient past and I know civilizations rise and fall, and the planet undergoes upheavals. Even human insanity is an aspect of nature, a stage of development.

Global consciousness creates global outcomes.

Meter

I might add a third possible outcome that one tends to wish for: that the engineers manage to control the weather well enough to stabilize the warming and control the geological activity (probably what fracking is really about), despite their poisoning everything with it, at least until the sun gets cooler or something else returns the status quo. This could be what they’re aiming for, or you can consider the alien terraforming hypothesis as well.

Yet that outcome has some holes. First, it doesn’t look like the warming is even close to stabilizing. It looks to be on the edge of the runaway warming good scientists have warned about for decades. (Back then, the Bush admin silenced them and wouldn’t let them talk about global warming – the MSM and gov used to hide it with a passion! Only places like Rense were talking about it. Then they turned on a dime and started the politically motivated ‘stop climate change’ hoopla, while at the same time convincing others its a hoax, guaranteeing paralysis. The MSM, left and right, puts out both kinds of articles and fake data to maintain confusion.)

It would take a large something to change that warming, and whatever that large something is (such as a volcanic eruption), is itself likely to create upheaval and loss of life. Or, if the warming continues, that will create it.

Second, they’re clearly poisoning everyone with both the spraying, and the food/water/medicine/vaccines/GMOs/radiation. These poisons are already in the environment and will have effects for centuries. Fertility rates are already dropping in many parts of the world, mutations are occurring, cancers are exploding. Fukushima occurred, likely a deliberate event, killing an ocean and irradiating continents. Similar reactors everywhere are poised for catastrophe. There also seem to be political factions provoking a major war, perhaps WWIII. This means it’s not business as usual. It looks like a fire sale. Even if ‘they’ manage to control the weather, they seem to be deliberately killing the forests, oceans, and driving species extinction in many ways, including our own. Or perhaps there isn’t a ‘they’ at the top, and it’s a headless monster, yet it seems planned. So their plan clearly isn’t to leave the natural world intact for themselves and just reduce human population. Someone seems to be wiping it out with deliberate corporate and geoengineering actions, perhaps in advance of their losing control of the weather, or in preparation for another kind of natureless, weatherless Borg world.

The transhuman stuff is probably related to these plans. Now you see some of the wealthier ones trying to get out into space, but many expect they won’t be permitted. There may already be colonies elsewhere. But the massive geoengineering could be a desperate delay for time while they get themselves into space or underground. Believable because it doesn’t seem like a long-term weather plan, more like chemotherapy to get a few more days of life out of it. Meanwhile, there is a desperate attempt to hide general awareness of the real weather and climate engineering situation. They create a ‘nothing to see here’ illusion, manipulate the weather in some areas so MSM people don’t know it’s changing, and prevent the large storms from destroying cities and corporate interests. But that doesn’t seem sustainable and is already cracking.

So no matter how you foresee it unfolding, I believe many people will be and are living through epic change and challenges, and the scale of them is only just beginning to be seen. Timing is always a tough one, but it’s sure accelerating and reaching some critical points, including massive warming, huge methane releases, the droughts, and massive tree and species die-offs.

Of course going from matrix media in an air-conditioned environment to such a view makes it seem unreal, unbelievable. Yet look how strange weather and world events are becoming. Sometimes we face a situation of no good options. Personally, I try to live a quality now, while making basic preparations for the storms on the horizon. It’s a remarkable time to be alive on this planet. I can see why I bought tickets, but it’s a little terrifying if you actually look at what we’re living on the cusp of, which is why ‘respectable’ people don’t.

Bedbugger

Geo-engineering is being performed to try and reduce the effect of a massive increase in uvB radiation reaching the surface of the Earth. The metallic elements in the sprays affect the good bacteria in the soil, allowing the bad bacteria to flourish and damage the plants. The uvB radiation scorches the plants further weakening their resistance to disease. These videos explain the situation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRh2q-SFYF0

There have to a series of incidents that would make this happen. First we as humans do not relate to this, mainly because of the fact that we have been conditioned NOT to be in control of our natural self. Let me explain. Due to our inability to look beyond what we are being told we are unable through conditioning to recognize what is going on in this world. We can see this clearly, if one cares to look in the right direction, that our beloved doctors are no more than pushers for the giant pharmaceutical companies. This than explains our tendency to reject any argument in relation to what is happening to our planet. Can anybody explain to me why the global onslaught that is generally called geo-engineering is going on at an increasing rate? Why is it that nobody does anything to stop this? I personally have had trees dying at my place for no reason whatsoever, I think it is time to take government to task on what is going on in the world, that we are not being told about! As a TAX PAYER that is the worst thing I can think about. We are being kept in the dark. You know the mushroom bit?! Keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.